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Write a function that takes the binary representation of an unsigned integer and returns the number of ‘1’ bits it has (also known as the Hamming weight).

Note:

• Note that in some languages, such as Java, there is no unsigned integer type. In this case, the input will be given as a signed integer type. It should not affect your implementation, as the integer’s internal binary representation is the same, whether it is signed or unsigned.
• In Java, the compiler represents the signed integers using 2’s complement notation. Therefore, in Example 3, the input represents the signed integer. -3.
   

Example 1:

Example 2:

Example 3:

Constraints:

• The input must be a binary string of length 32.

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Solution:

Ideas：

1. Function Signature:

• The function hammingWeight takes a single parameter n of type uint32_t. This is a standard unsigned 32-bit integer in C.

1. Count Variable:

• A variable count is initialized to 0. This will keep track of the number of ‘1’ bits in the integer.

1. Looping Through Each Bit:

• The code uses a for loop to iterate through each of the 32 bits in the integer. The loop variable i goes from 0 to 31, representing each bit position in the integer.

1. Bitwise AND to Check Bit Value:

• Inside the loop, a bitwise AND operation is performed between n and (1U << i).
• 1U is an unsigned integer with a value of 1. The << operator is the left shift operator. 1U << i shifts the number 1 to the left by i places, effectively creating a mask where only the i-th bit is set to ‘1’, and all other bits are 0.
• The AND operation (n & (1U << i)) checks whether the i-th bit of n is 1 or 0. If this bit in n is 1, the result of the AND operation will be non-zero (true), and if this bit in n is 0, the result will be zero (false).

1. Counting ‘1’ Bits:

• If the result of the bitwise AND is non-zero, the count is incremented. This means that the i-th bit in n is 1.

1. Returning the Count:

• After the loop completes, the function returns the count of ‘1’ bits.

Code:

int hammingWeight(uint32_t n) {
    int count = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
        if (n & (1U << i)) {
            count++;
        }
    }
    return count;
}